Post-card-printing apparatus.



R. SCHOLZE.

POST CARD PRINTING APPARATUS.

' Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

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Rwy SLhZZT ATTORNEY R. SCHOLZE.

POST CARD PRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7. I917,

Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLF SCHOLZE, OF IDAGROVE, IOWA.

POST-CARD-PRIN TING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

Application filed April 7, 1917. Serial No. 160,473.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUooLF SoHoLzn, a citizen of Austria-Hungary. residing at Idagrovc, in the county of Ida and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Post-Card-Printing Apparatus. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to photographic printing apparatus especially adapted to be used for printing post cards and the like and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character stated which is of simple and durable structure and which may be easily and conveniently used for cfliciently printing post cards from photographic negatives or plates.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the post card printing apparatus:

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail sectional View of the upper portion of the same.

The post card printing apparatus comprises a casing 1 having side and back walls provided with openings and doors 2 hinged adjacent the said openings. The said doors are provided with translucencies 3 which are preferably of ruby hue and the said doors are further provided with shutters 4 adapted to be closed over the said translucencies. A box 5 is mounted at one of the side walls of the casing 1 and is adapted to hold the unprinted post card. A tray or trough 6 is located at the lower portion of the front wall of the casing and may receive the printed post card. The casing 1 is provided at its top wall with an opening 7 through which the heat which is generated by the light may escape from the interior of the casin An electric bulb 8 is mounted upon the liottom wall of the casing 1 and may be illuminated by an electric current conducted to the same by means of wires in a usual manner.

The casing 1 is provided at the upper portion of its front with an inclined section 9 which is provided with an opening 10. A frame 11 is hingedly mounted at the outer surface of the inclined section 9 and is provided with an openin adapted to register with the opening 10. lhe lower portion of the frame 11 is open. Panels 12 are hingedly connected together and one of the said panels portion to the lower part of the inclined sec-' tion 9 and is located within the casing 1. The frame 14 is open at its center and the said opening is covered by a curtain 15 which is attached at its edges to the frame 14 in any desired manner. A spring 16 is attached at its lower end to the lower portion of the front wall of the casing 1 and the upper free end of the spring 16 bears against the inner surface of the frame 14. The said spring 16 is under tension with a tendency to hold the frame 14 and the curtain 15 toward the inclined section 9 and the opening 10 thereof so that the curtain 15 normally lies over the said opening 10. A push rod 17 passes transversely through the inclined section 9 and is connected at its inner end with the frame 14. The said rod is provided at its outer end with a suitable knob.

In operation the bulb 8 is illuminated and the frame 11 is released from the clamping devices 13 and is swung in an upward direction. The plate ,or negative is then placed upon the inclined section 9 and over the opening 10. The frame 11 is then swung in a downward direction and its free end or edge is secured by the clamping devices 13 whereby the said plate or negative is held in position upon the inclined section 9. The operator then removes a post card from the box 5 and places the same in the opening of the frame 11 and against theplate or negative. The panels 12 are then closed down against the upper side of the post cardand are held by pressure from the hand so that the card is maintained in position upon the plate or negative. The push rod 17 is then moved longitudinally whereby the frame 14 is swung and the curtain 15 is removed from between the plate or negative and the bulb 8. Thus the plate or negative and the post card are subjected to the rays of light from the bulb and inasmuch as the post card bears a sensitized substance the exposure upon the plate or negative is transferred to the said card. When the printing of the card is complete the operator releases the panels 12 and swings the same in an upward direction whereby pressure is removed from the post card and the same may then fall by gravity down along the lower portion of the inclined section 9 and deposit in the trough 6. i v From the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that a photographlc post card printing apparatus of simple and durable form is provided and that the same may be easily and conveniently used for quickly printing a great number of cards. When the casin is not used .for printing post cards the oors 2-and the shutters 4 thereof may be manipulated for the purpose of using the casing 1 as a means for developing photographic prints.

Havm described the invention what is claimed 1s:

1. A photographic. printing apparatus comprising a casing having a wall section provided with an opening, a frame hingedly mounted upon the casing and having an opening adapted to register with the first mentioned opening, securing devices for the said frame, a panel hingedly connected with the frame and adapted to close within the same, a light located Within the casing, a curtain located between the light and the first mentioned opening and means for moving the curtain 2. A photographic printing apparatus ing thereof, a source of light located within the caslng, a frame hingedly connected with the'cas ng and located within the same, a curtain carried by the last mentioned frame a spring bearing against the last mentioned frame and being under tension with a tendency to hold the curtain over the opening in the wall section of the casing, and means for moving the last mentioned frame.

3. A photographic printing apparatus comprising a caslng having a wall section provided with an opening, a frame hinged to said wall section and having an. opening extending in from its lower edge and adapted to register with the opening in the casing, a panel hinged in the opening in the said frame, a source of light located within the casing, a spring pressed frame mounted within the casing and having an opening adapted to register with the epening in the casing, a curtain carried by the last mentioned frame and adapted to normally lie over the opening in the casing, and a rod passing transversely through the casing and connected with the second mentioned frame.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

RUDOLF SCHOLZE. 

